Participants' Input to the Meeting

This is the first PostgreSQL cluster developers meeting. The meeting is held as an associated event of PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan. For the detail of the meeting, please visit Call for Participants.

Participants of the meeting is encouraged to submit inputs to the meeting to this page. Organizational information can be found here: PostgreSQL_Conference_2009_Japan.

Clustering Marketplace

What do you think current commercial and user demand for clustering is? Are users trying to get scalability, availability, or other benefits from Clustering? Has interest in clustering waned or grown?

Josh Says: I've seen the desire for an "Oracle RAC Replacement" is less prominent, at least in the USA, than it was a few years ago. It's possible that folks are realizing that RAC has a lot of drawbacks, or it may just be that I don't talk to Oracle users as much. People seem to be looking more for clustering to help with horizontal scalability, especially to help with performance on cloud hosting platforms, which is a big source of demand now. With MySQL in trouble, people are really looking for an "approximate consistency, low administration" solution to replace MySQL Replication & NDB.

Challenges and Issues

What challenges are you currently facing in working on clustering and replication? What things do you think should be different about core Postgres or developed in common?

Agenda For Day

Please contribute to this agenda! It is not yet final, but we do need to have a list of items people want to talk about before the meeting itself. If you add an item to the agenda, please put your name next to it so we know who to call to start the item.

The meeting will run from 9:30AM to 5:30PM.

Introduction

Current clustering definitions, use cases and customer goals (1/2 hour short presentation, Koichi-san and Josh Berkus)

Review of Existing Projects

Each project team will be welcome to give a 5-minute presentation about
your current development work on your clustering or replication solution
near the beginning of the event. Note that you are NOT obligated to
give this presentation; if you feel that your current efforts are well
enough known, or if you have no time to prepare, you may choose not to
give a presentation.

In order to have a productive day, please design your presentation around the following:

Presentations will be 5 minutes only, strictly timed.

In order to support (1), presentations will be given on *my* laptop using PDF slides. Please bring a PDF with you to the meeting, or (better) e-mail it to me before the meeting.

Please discuss *current* work on your software and challenges you are currently facing. Summaries of the history or features of your solution are unnecessary unless they have changed in the last year. Instead, link to these on the wiki.

Follow-up

Schedule and Map

Contact Information

Communication for the clustering summit has been on Josh Berkus's clustering@berkus.org mailing list.

Phone numbers for Koichi Suzuki, Michael Paquier and Josh Berkus have been sent by e-mail. Note that many/most foreign cell phones do not work in Japan.

Please list below your name and the hotel you are staying at in case we need to find you:

Josh Berkus: Shiba Park Hotel

Bruce Momjian: Park Hotel Tokyo

Jan Wieck: Park Hotel Tokyo

Markus Wanner: Shiba Park Hotel

Miscellaneous Travel Tips

Suica Card: Foreign Passport Holders can purchase a Suica + NEX package at Narita Airport for 3500 Yen. It consists of a one-way fare NEX to Tokyo and a 1500 Yen precharged Suica chipcard, that can be used on underground trains in Tokyo (plus 500 Yen deposit for the card). Considering that the one-way fare of NEX is 3000 Yen alone, that looks like a great deal. See http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2359_002.html for details. -- Jan